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“Honoring Women: Every Woman, a Life Story to Tell” , an exhibition of new artwork by artist Jazmin Sasky opens October 10th at the Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Through interviews with 40 women with ties to the Jewish community, Sasky painted 14 large format portraits representing her artistic renderings of women’s personal stories. The...
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Western Canada's premiere flamenco event, presenting the best in international, Canadian and regional flamenco. The festival presents flamenco artists performing in a range of styles - from traditional to contemporary, and soloists to ensemble works. As a gathering place for the ever-growing local and national flamenco community, the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival takes the audience ...
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Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988) September 22 – December 29, 2013 (closed December 23-28) A Call for Justice tells a story of human rights and the enduring perseverance of the Japanese Canadian community who suffered so much from 1942-1949. In honour of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Redress Agreement with the Government of Canada in 1988, the Nikkei Nation...
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A MARCO POLO BRIDGE: IAIN BAXTER : VENICE / SUZHOU / VANCOUVER As the first European to have visited Suzhou (in 1276), Marco Polo was positioned to make the first "Occidental" report concerning the now world-famous classical Chinese garden traditions in that city. From June 1 to November 30, 2013, as a link to crucially important Venice/Suzhou cross-cultural conjunctions, the Sun Y...
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ARMSTRONG'S WAR By Colleen Murphy A Battle of Wills PREMIERE Spirited Halley Armstrong is a 12-year-old Pathfinder, eager to earn all her badges. When she volunteers to read stories to a young soldier injured in Afghanistan, he responds with his own shocking story-one that throws Halley's cherished beliefs about life and hope into question.

VENUS IN FUR By David Ives A Kinky Comedy Young actress Vanda wants to land the lead in Venus in Fur, a new play based on the infamous novel that inspired the term "masochism." During her charged audition for Thomas, the demanding writer-director, the role-playing turns into an erotically charged game, shifting the power dynamics and blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Quic...
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Sky Blanket features the work of Haida-Kwakwaka'wakw-Irish textile artist, Meghann O'Brien. Meghann explores the emergence of the human spirit face in Raven's Tail textiles, evoking memory and the importance of objects in constructing the past, present, and future. Inspired by her ancestors' works, ideas about gifts from the spirit world and lineage, and the mountainous landscape of sky and sno...
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Vancouver's first annual city-wide photography festival launches October 1st, 2013. Capture, a not-for-profit festival, is dedicated to celebrating local and international photography and lens-based art. The festival aims to foster emerging talent, encourage active community participation, and initiate public conversation about photography as an art form, as a means of communication, and as a mode...
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People Like Us November 2nd - 16th, 2013 WORLD PREMIERE - A military policeman returns to Canada following the Gulf War a changed man. His fiercely determined wife fights to restore her husband's health in the wake of war. Along the way she becomes an advocate for powerless veterans battling for support. As she prepares for her daughter's wedding, she reflects on her own marriage - the powe...
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Halloween is quickly approaching, and what better way to enjoy it than with a unique, Canadian experience from Vancouver's newest attraction, FlyOver Canada! See Canada like never before at Vancouver's new must-see attraction! At its core, FlyOver Canada is a breathtaking, all-ages, flight simulation ride like no other! You will take off into a huge dome screen with the latest in projection and r...
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Halloween Ghost Train in Stanley Park Travel through the silver screen into the world of CLASSIC HORROR MOVIES! Take your velvet seat on the Halloween Ghost Train and journey back to a time when moving pictures unearthed the shadows that lay sleeping in the dark recesses of our minds. Awake Dracula! Awake Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Phantom of the Opera. Crawl out from your coffins, slither fr...
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James Hart, Exhibition The Dance Screen (The Scream Too) November 2012 to March 9, 2014 In late 2009, artist James Hart began designing a large-scale sculpture titled The Dance Screen (The Scream Too) and began carving the work in 2010. This ambitious project brings together many of the principal animal figures from traditional Haida stories, especially creatures that depend on salmon for t...
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This summer, thousands of jellyfishes are invading the Vancouver Aquarium. With over 15 different species of jellyfishes from all over the globe on exhibit, plus new shows, activities and interactive displays, there's a lot of new and exciting things to see and do. Come and see several jellyfish species rarely on display at the Aquarium! Daily, May 16, 2013 - November 12, 2013 Vancouver Aquariu...
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KIMSOOJA Unfolding - Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (October 11, 2013 to January 26, 2014) KIMSOOJA Unfolding is the first retrospective exhibition to assess the thirty-year career of the Korean-born, Paris- and New York-based artist, and offers an unprecedented opportunity to trace the development of the artist's practice from her earlier works to her more recent production. Kims...
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Four contemporary Vancouver photographers examine and respond to Foncie Pulice and his body of work in this photographic exhibition, done in collaboration with Vancouver's Capture Photography Festival. Artists include Lincoln Clarkes, Brian Howell, Angela Fama, and John Goldsmith. Admission Rates All prices include applicable sales tax. Adult &nb...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013 to Sunday, March 23, 2014 Daniel Evan White knew exactly how to play with houses. The modest Vancouver architect drove innovation along the west coast from 1960 to 2012, creating homes that his clients claim were life changing. Discover his remarkable work in this first retrospective of his career. Play House Exhibition ventures through Daniel Evan White's mind, ha...
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Research on Japanese Canadians: What are the Challenges? What are the Possibilities? As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the redress settlement of September 22, 1988, the Nikkei National Museum with Simon Fraser University's Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities and the Asian Canadian Studies Society is pleased to sponsor a panel discussion of eminent scholars who have...
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COMMUNION by Daniel MacIvor Oct 25-Nov 9 Leda is a recovering alcoholic whose daughter burns down abortion clinics. When her therapist does the unthinkable and offers concrete advice, Lida acts on it - and all three women find their convictions are on a collision course with their all-too-human need for certainty and connection. A guest production by Ruby Slippers Theatre.

SFU Men`s Hockey hosts UVIC on November 2nd, 2013 at Bill copeland Arena. Game starts at 7:00pm sharp. The Scoop: SFU has matched up against UVIC twice already this season outscoring them 15-0. Both SFU Goalies Andrew Parent and Graeme Gordon recorded a shutout in their starts and are looking to continue your dominance over UVIC. UVIC will be looking for revenge as they were held to only 39...
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